The 19th-century English historian J.R. Seeley famously said Britain acquired its empire in a “fit of absence of mind.” The same could be said of the post-Cold War European Union. In some ways, the EU s enlargement beyond its Western European core happened in a fit of distraction after the collapse of the USSR. Now, it is growing weary.
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